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Biography

Tracy Is Senior lecturer in the School of Health Sciences (Nutrition and Dietetics), at the University of Newcastle.Tracy is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and was awarded her PhD in 2008. Tracy has expertise in the areas of the assessment of dietary intake and conducting high quality research trials. More recently she has intiated investigation into the area of food addcition. Tracy has > 50 peer reviewed journal publications, supervises 4 PhD, 1 masters and 3 honours students and is involved in research studies regarding dietary validation and obesity treatment and expertise in working with paediatric populations.

Qualifications

PhD (Nutrition & Dietetics), University of Newcastle, 23/10/2008

Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours), University of Newcastle, 23/12/2004

Graduate Certificate Practice of Tertiary Teaching, University of Newcastle, 12/12/2008

Burrows TL, Martin RJ, Collins CE, 'A systematic review of the validity of dietary assessment methods in children when compared with the method of doubly labeled water', Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 110 1501-1510 (2010) [C1]

Bray JF, Burrows TL, Collins CE, Morgan PJ, 'Evaluation of a theory-based, after-school cooking club for children and their families living in a socio-economically disadvantaged community', 2011 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) eProceedings, Melbourne, VIC (2011) [E3]

Burrows TL, Collins CE, Warren J, 'A novel approach to validating dietary change in children participating in an obesity intervention', Annual Scientific Meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. Abstracts, New Orleans (2007) [E3]